Australia's National Broadband Network proposes streaming video tax

Re:Australia's National Broadband Network proposes streaming... by pdemporg on Monday July 01, 2019 @10:50PM (#20331733)

It's worth nothing that Australia has never had the net neutrality debate that occurred in the US. This might well be the spark, if anyone in this country cares.

This move would be NBN way overstepping its remit as a last-mile layer-2-only service, as it is described in legislation. The ACCC has already taken them to task over mission creep regarding backhaul (and remade the model from 14 POIs to 121) - deep packet inspection would surely grab their attention.

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Re:Australia's National Broadband Network proposes streaming... by femto on Tuesday July 02, 2019 @07:51AM (#20334102)

Also worth noting that the NBN is a government mandated monopoly. There are no other options for a wired Internet connection. If the NBN abandons net neutrality then the entire Internet is broken in Australia.

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Re:Australia's National Broadband Network proposes streaming... by guidedlight on Monday July 01, 2019 @11:37PM (#20331932)

I’m sure deep packet inspection is already occurring on all traffic on Australia’s National Broadband Network already.

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